Baron d'Holbach Quotes

Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.

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• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Life
  • Experience
  • War

• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Character
  • Myself

• I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Society
  • Community

• I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • World
  • Die
  • Afraid

• Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Science
  • Best
  • Force

• Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Food
  • Stop

• Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Long
  • Day
  • Water

• Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Want
  • Need

• For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Me
  • Value

• True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • True
  • Know
  • Problem

• It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Sex

• With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Cool
  • Drama

• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Wife
  • Church
  • Presbyterian

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• 'I just got shot in the ass with an infected load of semen! Who's the smart-ass?'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Smart

• Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

  

  Philip Sidney
  • Knowledge
  • Food
  • Sweet

• Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Music
  • Energy
  • Universe

• The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Sun
  • Sky
  • Tears

• Three of Newt Gingrich's 'Five Principles of American Civilization' deal with business, technology, and organization - all characteristics of work. There is no mention of liberty or equality or, for that matter, of democracy.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • Work
  • Business
  • American

• Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Universe
  • Sky